old soda pop jingles

old soda pop jingles

How many can you remember (name)? I'm probably dating myself but these are the ones I remember.

Coke:

It's the Real ThingI'd like to buy the world a Coke (to the song "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing")Coke Adds LifeHave a Coke and a SmileCoke is ItAlways Coca ColaCan't beat the Real Thing(Probably many newer ones but these are the ones I remember as a kid, when I watched a ton of TV)

Pepsi:

You're the Pepsi GenerationJoin the Pepsi people--feelin free!Have a Pepsi dayCatch that Pepsi spirit--drink it in!You got the right one, baby (that may have been Diet Pepsi)The Joy of Cola

Anyone remember "RC 100?" It was a sugar and caffeine-free Royal Crown product that came out in the late '70s or early '80s.I remember the jingle well: "RC 100 has nothing. No sugar and no caffeine. RC 100 has nothing--nothing but taste!"

Dr Pepper is the friendly Pepper-Upper And it never, never, never let's you down...

The lyrics making reference to the clock face on the old 'painted-graphics bottles', with clock hands at 10 - 2 - 6, to remind you that if you ingested the caffeine at those times you would not suffer the 'let-down' of a post-caffeine depression !

Or how about the Pepsi jingle that pointed out that it was a generous 12 oz serving , compared to Coke's 6 oz bottle."Pepsi Cola hits the spot, Two full glasses, that's a lot, ......(forgotten lyrics)... and only a nickle too!"

The first jingle I remember for Mountain Dew was "Hello Sunshine! Hel-lo Moun-tain Dew!

Then, this shouldn't even be limited to soda pop. Many other snacks had memorable jingles like that. Remember Funny Face drink mix? Very similar to that old Pepsi commercial. "When you're hot, you're hot. And we've got a lot...two whole quarts and that's a lot...etc.They uised to play that to death, and I never saw the stuff anywhere and never had any, so it got annoying. Then it just disappeared, and I ran across it in a videotape of some old 70's cartoons (ABC's "Saturday Superstar Movies", to be exact), and it was like "how did I forget that? Then, the LifeSavers commercial with the conveyor belt ("22 candies, 22 holes..."), "Quisp vs Quangaroos" race, and McDonald's "Keep America Clean" with the living trash cans.

"Was it Tab that put out a promotional record of Music to Watch Girls By? Gee, those were the days! It's getting harder and harder to find an apartment with a push-button fold-out bed and bar!"-----------------------------------------------------------------

I think that was Tab. Maybe Diet Rite.But I do remember Tab's jingle very well: "Tab...what a beautiful drink...Tab...for beautiful people....Tab...you're beautiful to me."A soda pop...that's beautiful? They still sell Tab in supermarkets but only in cans. I think Diet Coke took away its spotlight.

I remeber a commercial with the music from "The Girl from Ipanena" was used in a cola commercial. Though I am guessing, it mught have been a Diet Pepsi commercial.

Gotta love that song.

I remember a Jobim song 'Waters of March' being used for a Coke commercial (with new lyrics - the original ones were a bit dark).

I also remember comic Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez in a Vernor's ad, singing a jingle of his making that was toneless, rhymeless, and inane. The narrator comments "That was horrendous!" Jose replies "No no, that was Jimenez!"

Everybody likes it, Diet Rite Cola! At that time, early 1970's, I worked in an office that had a very attractive strawberry-blond secretary named Laura that all the guys were infatuated with. A colleague used to around all the time singing “everybody likes her’ Laura Cola.”

Drink Dr. PepperThe joy of every boy and girlIt's the most original softdrink everIn the whole, wide world (Drink Dr. Pepper)

This one wasn't around for long, but it is firmly implanted in my memory - Picture a hilly, snow-covered area, late at night with a road running through. Off in the distance you see a bunch of little white lights, coming toward you. Soon, you see that they are actually a whole line of 18-wheelers, outlined in white Christmas lights. And you hear a whole chorus chanting "Sant packs are coming, Santa packs are coming" over and over and over. I don't even remember the other words to the jingle, but any time I'm out driving at night and see an 18-wheeler I can't resist chanting "Santa packs are coming! Santa packs are coming!"

Oh, yeah! There was a time that Dr. Pepper was considered to have some of the most creative ads in television.

Then for not so great, anyone remember a Shasta Root Beer commercial that somehow combined a wild west saloon setting with the Andrews Sisters in a musical number? All I really remember is, "Root beer Mr. Shane" sung to the tune of "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen."